Updates and Announcements

Announcements

1960 Graduates Coming to Campus – The Asbury Seminary graduating class of 1960 will be returning to Kentucky’s campus May 21-22 to celebrate their 50^th reunion.  The “Golden Graduates” will participate in special meals, campus tours, chapel and will be honored at Commencement on May 22.  We look forward to sharing this time with them!

Doctor of Ministry Open House - Florida Dunnam Campus - August 19, 2010 - Are you ready for the next step? Asbury Seminary is offering a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) in Transformational Innovation on the Florida Campus, located in Orlando.  “Twenty-first century ministry demands all the innovation we can muster,” said Tom Tumblin, executive director of Asbury Seminary’s D.Min. program. “The Florida D.Min. will immerse pastors in creative ministry ideas as they explore how God would use them in new ways.” The cohort model provides ministry leaders a way to retool and reengage their passion for ministry. Pastors and leaders are able to maintain their vital ministries at home while studying at Asbury Seminary.

Alan and Debra Hirsch to be Speakers at Kingdom Encounter 2011 - Alan and Debra Hirsch will be the keynote speakers for Kingdom Encounter 2011 held January 31-February 2, 2011 on the Florida Dunnam campus.  Alan Hirsch is a leader in the missional movement – a movement that in Hirsch’s own words “represents a significant shift in the way we think about the church. As the people of a missionary God, we ought to engage the world the same way he does—by going out rather than just reaching out. To obstruct this movement is to block God's purposes in and through his people.”  Hirsch and his wife Debra are partners in life and ministry, and together will be the key speakers at Kingdom Encounter, a three day conference that is designed to allow participants significant contact and engagement with the keynote speakers.  It is anticipated that Asbury will offer a three-credit hour class in conjunction with Kingdom Encounter, a practice that was very successful during the February 2010 event.  Further information and online registration for the event will be forthcoming.  Contact Dr. Kandace Brooks, Director of Community life (kandace.brooks@asburyseminary.edu) for more information. 

Updates

Rev. David A. Burris (M.Div. 1979) and his wife Ann (MAR 1978), graduates of Asbury Theological Seminary have been appointed by Bishop Robert Hayes as Woodward District Superintendent for the Oklahoma Conference beginning June 1, 2010.

Rev. Stan Cardwell (M.Div. 1992) and his wife Michelle are now legal guardians to Lazarus Ojoo.  Michelle is now in Uganda and has been there for almost three months.

Faculty Publications

Friendship at the Margins:Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission– Dr. Christine Pohl & Chris Heuertz

Chris Heuertz, international director of Word Made Flesh, and theologian ethicist Christine Pohl show how friendship is a Christian vocation that can bring reconciliation and healing to our broken world. They contend that unlikely friendships are at the center of an alternative paradigm for mission, where people are not objectified as potential converts but encountered in a relationship of reciprocity. InterVarsity Press, 2010

Health-Care Ethics: A Comprehensive Christian Resource- Dr. Jim Thobaben

Thobaben guides us into the realm of ethical discernment and decision-making by grasping the interconnections between health care with the whole of true Christian living. Students, pastors, and health-care professionals, this monumental resource is for you. Explore topics such as the nature of evangelical faith; understanding illness; family caring; the role of health-care providers; institutional considerations; ethical issues related to reproduction; and death and dying. InterVarsity Press, 2009

Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century – Dr. Timothy Tennent   

Combining a strong biblical anchor with practical suggestions, the unique text is arranged in three parts according to the Trinity’s roles, relationships, and activity. Tennent challenges the reader by building the book around key theological foundations such as “missio dei” and the “new creation” vision for the global church. This volume will call and enable the reader to understand how missions is biblically and theologically basic to Christianity, and how missions is essential to living an abundant and impassioned life. Kregel Academic and Professional, 2010

Family Crucible: The Influence of Family Dynamics in the Life and Ministry of John Wesley– Dr. Anthony Headley

This book explores the life and ministry of John Wesley from the perspective of Murray Bowen's Extended Family Systems Theory and Alfred Adler's concept of family constellation. Throughout the book, the author uses concepts drawn from these theories to explore significant historical and pivotal events in the life of John Wesley. The author explores his early family constellation, influential themes, factors shaping his ministry, and his relationships with Sophy Hopkey, Grace Murray, and his marriage to Mary Vazeille. It concludes by drawing lessons from Wesley's life pertinent to today's ministers. Wipf and Stock, 2010

Y Me Sereís Testigos- Jose Hernandez

With the paradigm shifts in the missionary movement in the United States and Canada, the Latin American church within these countries has the challenge to fulfill the commandment given by Jesus Christ to His church recorded in Acts 1:8. This is an urgent charge in the midst of a world without meaningful. This simple Macedonian call to the Latino church in North America is to reach out to those living in our local communities as well as those outside of our national borders. 

Jesus and Money: A Guide for Times of Financial Crisis– Dr. Ben Witherington III

In the wake of a sobering global recession, many Christians realize they need to rethink their approach to money. Witherington explores what the Bible does-and doesn't-say about money, and examines what Jesus and his earliest followers taught about wealth and poverty, money and debt, and tithing and sacrificial giving to help readers understand the proper role of money in modern Christian life.Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing, 2010